Producers have struggled with rising costs of raising the birds and a bird flu epidemic.
There could be a shortage of turkeys for your Christmas dinner this year - and it's being blamed on bird flu and rising living costs.Around 10 million turkeys are eaten in the UK each Christmas, but increased production costs are making it harder for farmers to rear them.
"There is definitely going to be a reduced production of turkeys for Christmas," Michael Bailey, turkey group chairman at the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales , tells the BBC."There's other larger producers who have decided to cut back - some by 50%, some 20%, just to reduce the risk."Others says that it's too soon to know what the situation will be in the festive season.
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